Don’t End URLs in .0

June 13th, 2008 | by Ankit |

Jane Copland of SEOMoz made a post about this after the mystery of there Web 2.0 Awards being removed from Google’s index.

According to Jane … when Rand contacted Google about this matter he was advised to change the URL so that it don’t end with “.0″ .. seems like Google treat .0 extension like it treats .exe or .tgz

Below is an assortment of URLs which are indexed in Yahoo! (and many also in Live), but which show no PageRank and do not appear in Google’s index. Below those, I’ve listed very similar pages that are indexed, but which do not end in .0.

Out of Google’s Index (but in Yahoo!):

  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard_4.0
  • drupal.org/drupal-5.0
  • keznews.com/3799_Vista_Transformation_Pack_8.0_Final_-_VTP_8.0
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_8.0
  • drupal.org/drupal-6.0
  • en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_11.0
  • www.shopping.com/xGS-Illustrator_11.0
  • www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Opensuse_11.0
  • www.shopping.com/xGS-Suse_9.0
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_10.0
  • en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.0

In the index:

  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2
  • drupal.org/drupal-5.0-beta1
  • http://keznews.com/3799_Vista_Transformation_Pack_8_0_Final_-_VTP_8_0
  • drupal.org/drupal-6.0-beta1
  • www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Opensuse_10.3
  • www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Opensuse_10.2
  • en.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs_10.3

Seems like there are more “.X” extensions !! Like someone just reported that URL’s ending with “.1″ are also affected !! As en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML_1.1 is suffering from a penalty !! However the “.1″ extension is not yet verified … I will update this post once it will be verified !!

A complete article can be seen here.

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